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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria.
  • German : variant of Sonne 1.
  • Dutch : from Middle Dutch sonne ‘sun’, applied as a term of endearment for a loved one, or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a sun.

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